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A fool on a moor… born in Kitale, brought up in Les Alluets, studied economics at UCL and fell in love. 40 years later I’m still trying to figure out how it all works.
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Bah
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This is one of those trick questions! “What makes you think they are surprised?” Or “how could they possibly be surprised by that?” Either way, the front page of the FT says Europe has been ‘left reeling’ by Trump over the peace talks. 🤓
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Correlated wiggles yes, choreographed wiggles, definitely not!
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The twin brother of the ‘death of the gilt market’ fears in the 1990s…I have no idea why the DMO doesn’t focus more on the short end of the curve, but even if DT sends yields higher everywhere, that’ll just create an even bigger buying opportunity here.
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May need a new dot on it this morning after…
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Once the banks bought the gemms it was never going to the serious sober place it was when Pongo, Bonzo, Rodders and the Adder were keeping it in order…
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I can understand London and Palermo but the Royal Spanish Mail was slacking on this basis…
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Are you wearing running shoes or ice skates?
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In that context, Helmut Schlesinger’s obituary is worth reading… the Bundesbank was overruled on the terms of reunification, and the UK was booted out of the ERM. Cursing Schlesinger didn’t prevent Major and Lamont getting the blame…
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There aren’t many reasons to be grateful for 7 am meetings but they do remove such temptations…
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When/if they next turn up, take them to Ragnarok… mythosragnarok.co.uk#:~:text=Myth....
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Arsenal or Eddie?
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Seems politicians get the blame for inflation, regardless of where it comes from. But people still vote for candidates whose policy plans are likely to be inflationary…
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I suspect it will be neither Russians or Martians that will conquer Earth, but avocados…
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You’re doing so many people a great service by bearing this burden on your own
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And he’s the adult in the team….the sensible voice who calmed everything down until DT decided to throw water balloons around the room at midnight.
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Your cats insist on human cadavers? Niche!
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5 in, hopefully picks up the pace, then!
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Wish it would speed up … a……….bit
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Listen to the music and ignore the gibberish?
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So… we need to get rid of the cat! But…. The company’s called JAGUAR! Yes, I see that but ‘Jaguar’ could mean so much more than ‘flesh-eating-feline’…. Couldn’t it?
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Was that tweet generated by a degenerate human, or by an AI?
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Dreamers could flip it on its head - if Germany changed its fiscal path, it could change the European economic outlook significantly - for the better.
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It’s trying to get to Rio??
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Followed by ‘The pound rose briefly, as higher inflation will slow the pace of interest rate cuts, but was a half-hearted reaction, which won’t last any longer than a Brazilian suntan.
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OK, how about (with a mandatory picture of snow in Derbyshire): Prices, which had been rising at a slowing pace, are surging again, thanks to a higher cap on energy bills just in time for the winter’s first Arctic blast.
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Thought you were going to declare undying love for Angela Merkel for a moment…
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America has plenty of problems but I’m not sure a lack of demand, in aggregate, is one of them…
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A TV series about a London gangster/tailor trying to revive interest in 3-piece suits on social media?
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I hope they are, for the lols